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• MicroDroid: [USENET] n. A Microsoft employee, esp. one who posts to various operating-system advocacy newsgroups.
  MicroDroids post follow-ups to any messages critical of Microsoft's operating systems, and often end up sounding like visiting Mormon missionaries....
• MS-DOS:: /M-S-dos/ [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] n.
  A {clone} of {{CP/M}} for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson, who is said to have regretted it ever since....
• MS-DOS /M-S-dos/ n. [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] A clone of CP/M for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson at Seattle Computer Produc
  who called the original QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and is said to have regretted it ever since....
• The War Against Linux A significant obstacle on the path to Linux World Domination has emerged.
  A reactionary grass-roots movement has formed to fight, as they call it, "The War Against Linux"....
• Jargon Coiner (#10) An irregular feature that aims to give you advance warning of new jargon that we've just made up.
  * HOBTOB (Hanging Out By The O'Reilly Books): Seeking free Linux technical support at a bookstore by waiting near the computer books for a geek to come by and then casually asking them for help....
• Microsloth Windows /mi:'kroh-sloth` win'dohz/ n. (Variants combine {Microshift, Macroshaft, Microsuck} with {Windoze, WinDOS}.
  Hackerism(s) for `Microsoft Windows'. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition....
• How many operating systems are required to screw in a light bulb?
  Just one-Microsoft is making a special version of Windows for it....
• Microsoft should stick to word processors, and leave the operating systems to Digital Research.
• ARMM n. [acronym, `Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation'] A Usenet cancelbot created by Dick Depew of Munroe Falls, Ohio.
  ARMM was intended to automatically cancel posts from anonymous-posting sites....